In my never-ending quest for new music, I’ve been trawling through the seventies.<\/p>\n
And finding some interesting stuff.<\/p>\n
For example – I’ve always known <\/em>Stevie Wonder was an amazingly talented guy. \u00a0A top-notch multi-instrumentalist and one of Motown’s greatest talents from the sixties to the eighties, and – this is rare – an artist whose “mega-sales” period came after <\/em>he’d been an artistic trailblazer for a couple of decades, he’s one of those musicians who I just know <\/em>I’m supposed to like.<\/p>\n As, indeed, I do – having worked at a slew of oldies stations during my radio career, I always liked his Motown output, as well as his stuff from the early to mid seventies – at least, the stuff that made it on the radio. \u00a0 And that’s all notwithstanding the fact that by the time I discovered him he was well into the least interesting but by far most profitable part of his career – his “Ebony and Ivory” \/ “That’s What Friends Are For” \/ “Part Time Lover” phase of his career.<\/p>\n So poking around the web the other day, I found this; a mini concern from French TV from 1974, when Wonder was 24 and had already been a star half his life. \u00a0It bounces around through a bunch of styles, jams a lot<\/em>, and is…<\/p>\n …well, just listen.<\/p>\n